Interview Reflection

Unfortunatly, last week I forget to blog so i decided to make up for it this week. Instead of having a free write this week, I will reflect my experience with the mock interview. The only type of interview I have ever gone through was a group based interview for a summer camp staff member. This was definately not as intimidating as my interview two weeks ago. As I was putting on my black dress pants and looking at the lack of nice shoes I own, I realized that this is the first of many instances where I will definately feel out of my element. After sitting my Angie for only a very moments, I was already comfortable with the new setting. Like a lot of people, I do not have too much of a problem talking about myself. I think it is fun to share stories with other people. One thing that really helped was to imagine that the interviewer was not a superior, but a friend that I had not spoken with in a while. After the interview, Angie gave me some great tips for when I have to do this "for real." She said that I should always come up with atleast one question to ask the interviewer just to re-emphasize how interested I am and how much research i have already done on the graduate school or job site. Another thing she told me was to know going into it that I will probably lose my train of thought and that the best way to deal with it is to take a breath, and start over. Overall, I think that the mock interviews were very helpful. I actually have an appointment to complete another one tomorrow and I feel a little more at ease going into the process this time.

Classmate Presentations

My favorite presentation completed by my classmates was the presentation by Jessica K. You could really tell that she knew a lot about her topic and therefore she was able to inform a lot of people about it. Her slides were very bright and that matched her topic of the brightly colored clothes. She was also wearing a great visual aid.

I don't want Garbage! I want Sprinkles!

Since there is no formal blog topic for this week, I decided to blog about what is the most fresh on my mind. Like I said in my introductory blog, The Office is one of my favorite shows. Luckily for me, The season premiere was September 27. It started off with a bang, literally, when Michael Scott, the general manager of the office, hit one of the employees, Meredith, with his car. In this blog, I am going to focus on the episode from last night. Two of the main characters, Jim and Pam, have recently started dating after 3 seasons of extreme sexual tension. Toby, the Human Resources guy, sent out a memo telling people to watch the PDA. Pam assumed that it was a silly way of congratulating her and Jim on their new out in the open relationship. The sad part about this is that Toby has a big crush on Pam. Another office romance is beginning to crumble. Angela and Dwight, who have been having a secret relationship for pretty much the entire series, are running into a wall which they cannot get over. Angela is a cat person and one of her cats was very ill in the last episode. She asked Dwight to go and give her cat, Sprinkles, her medicine. When Dwight got back, he very matter of factly told Angela that he gave Sprinkles her medicine but that she was dead and he put her in the freezer. Angela went home and found that Dwight had put her in the freezer while she was still alive because he wanted to euthanize her. This week, Dwight brought Angela a cat from his beet farm nad he named it Garbage. After seeing this cat, Angela exclaimed, "I don't want Garbage! I want Sprinkles!" Another important occurance this week was that the previous office temp, Ryan, who is now the boss of the office that he used to work at, comes back to do a presentation on new technology. His ex-girlfriend, high maintanence, super girly Kelly tells him that she is pregnant in order to get him back. She is not pregnant. When Ryan finds out she was lying, he gets very angry and tells her that he never wants to get back together with her. When Andy Bernard meets Ryan after his situation with Kelly, he tells hime "You are so money and you don't even know it... but you do!" That was one of my favorite quotes from the night. The episode ends with Michael driving his car into a lake because his navigation told him to turn into it... kind of. "Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me, the choice is easy." This is what Michael says to prove his point about hating technology. He then thinks that he has one-upped Ryan and says, "Game. Set. Match. Point. Scott. Game over. End of game." All in all, I think it was a good episode but not as good as the series premiere. I cannot wait until next Thursday at 9 when I will be sitting on my couch with my roommate laughing out loud, for an hour straight.